SIMON WESTAWAY – Actor

Celebrity Tennis Day - Sunday 7th, February 2010 11am – 4pm

Hi Guys, Thanks for following me today for a really worthy cause. I am MC – ing today at the Celebrity Tennis Day at Chatswood.  Check out the Photos below as we post them up live during the day. 16 high profile celebrities along myself with Double Drummer hope to raise $20,000 for Diabetes Australia-NSW by demonstrating that being active helps prevent the fastest growing chronic disease in the world. There are going to be more Stars here than the Constellation.

Bring the Kids along…. Active Kidz perfomance on Kids Court at 1:15pm

Here is the list of great Ceebrities playing today in the Tournament.

• Layne Beachley
• Guy Leech & wife Helen
• Liz Ellis – Aussie Captain Netballer
• Kerri Pottharst – 2000 Olympic Games beach volleyball
• Lindy Olsen – A 3-Time Miss World Natural Figure champion
• Stephanie Brantz – The female face of sport at the Nine Network
• Corey Brown – Melbourne Cup Winner of “Shocking” 2009
• Trevor Chappell _ Ausse Cricketer
• Angie Akers – Beach Vollyballer
• Trya Turner – No.5 Beach Volleyballer, playing
• Mark Bosnich -
  Australia’s best ever goalkeeper, representing Australia 17 times and playing for English Premier League clubs Aston Villa, Manchester United and Chelsea
• David Peachey - Australian international and New South Wales State of Origin rep. fullback, ‘Peach’

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Simon Westaway and Actress Alexandra Davies at the NSW AFI Awards Announcement in Darling Harbour. Friday 22nd Jan, 2010

Having attended the Announcement of the AFI Awards today and the AFI returning to Sydney, CEO of Screen NSW Tania Chambers agreed with me that Australian content and not just American block buster style movies made in Australia must be part of the programme. Australian’s clearly view our culture through our films, and I was happy she understood the importance of this 21 st century approach to storytelling. And furthering this kind of discussion, I look forward to talking her in the future.

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Max Markson & Simon Westaway appearing at the  Byron Bay Ale plastic bottle launch, 1st December 2009.

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Simon Westaway (Mick Gatto) and Damian Walshe-Howling (Andrew ‘Benji’ Veniamin)

IT was the perfect scene — a casino penthouse, showgirls in beaded bras and plumed headdresses and the haunting strains of The Godfather theme being played on a white grand piano.

It was only fitting, then, that two of the Melbourne underworld’s most notorious gangsters, or at least the actors playing them in a top-rating TV drama, make their debut on the Gold Coast.

Underbelly actors Simon Westaway (who plays underworld kingpin Mick Gatto) and Damian Walshe-Howling (underworld hit man Andrew ‘Benji’ Veniamin) were yesterday introduced to the media at Jupiters casino.

The explosive Channel Nine drama, the number one rating program on the Gold Coast, has given birth to a resurgence of interest in Australian-made drama after a long, dry spell.

Walshe-Howling, whose character Benji sports distinct tribal tattoos, thick, silver earrings and a shaven head, was more subdued in dress yesterday but nonetheless drew female eyes.

Oblivious of the attention, Walshe-Howling said playing real people carried with it great responsibility.

“A real person, even one who is dead, has family and friends who are all alive,” he said.

Underbelly actors Simon Westaway, who plays underworld kingpin Mick Gatto, and Damian Walshe-Howling, hitman Andrew `Benji’ Veniamin, on the Coast yesterday

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Actor Simon Westaway (R) and his daugther Bella arrive for the premiere of ‘Mamma Mia!’ at the Lyric Theatre, Star City on October 29, 2009 in Sydney, Australia.

(October 28, 2009 – Photo by Sergio Dionisio/Getty Images AsiaPac)

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